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...lers, hepatitis A occurs 100 times more often than typhoid fever or cholera. It is spread by the fecal-oral route by ingesting contaminated food or water, or through close person-to-person contact. Hepatitis A can result in jaundice, weakness and can even cause liver failure. Hepatitis B is spread throug...Active vaccine prevents mice from developing prion disease
...mal vaccines and in human vaccines for cholera and typhoid fever. Among mice vaccinated prior to prion exposure, approximately 30% remained alive and symptom-free for 500 days, according to the study. By comparison, mice that didn't receive the vaccine survived only an average of 185 days, and all were dead ...... A comprehensive analysis of two infection models typhoid and diarrhoea shows clearly that there are far fewer than expected possible points of attack for developing urgently needed antibiotics. It is also now obvious that increasingly ineffective antibiotics ought to be replaced by similar, but not identi...Nepalese researchers identify cost-effective treatment for drug-resistant typhoid
...g, Gatifloxacin, may be more effective at treating typhoid fever than the drug currently recommended by the W...lcome Trust, has implications for the treatment of typhoid particularly in areas where drug resistance is a major problem. The results are published today in t...